Questions tagged [association-lists]
or alist for short, maps keys to values. It is a list of key-value pairs, where each pair is a cons whose car is the key and whose cdr is the value.
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How to replace an element of an alist?
I have this by default in my auto-mode-alist:
("\\.js\\'" . javascript-mode)
(even with emacs -Q). I'd like to substitute js2-mode for javascript-mode. Of course, I could use assq-delete-all and ...
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Is '(a . b) really a list?
I'm really confused with the . notation. Is '(a . b) a list?
(listp '(a . b)) returns t but when I want to know its length (length '(a . b)) gives an error Wrong type argument: listp, b. The same is ...
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Best way to retrieve values in nested assoc-lists?
Suppose I've got an assoc-list like this:
(setq x '((foo . ((bar . "llama")
(baz . "monkey")))))
And I want the value at bar. I can do this:
(assoc-default 'bar (assoc-default '...
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Looking for a simple way to update an alist without introducing degeneracies
In my .emacs file I have code like this:
(setq default-frame-alist
(assq-delete-all 'width default-frame-alist))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
(cons 'width new-width))
The ...
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construct an association list from two vectors
I have two vectors, [apple orange] and [5 10]. How do I construct an association list ((apple 5) (orange 10)) from them?
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Is there a function like `assoc` that returns all matching values?
The assoc KEY LIST function returns the first element of an alist whose car is equal to KEY.
Is there a built-in Emacs Lisp function which returns all elements of the alist whose cars are equal to ...
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Why does emacs use both propertly lists and association lists?
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Plists-and-Alists.html gives some supposed differences between plists and alists. Basically it comes down to:
Alists can be used as stacks, ...
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Replace element of alist using `equal` even if key does not exist
I have an alist whose keys are strings, and I need to set the value for one of its keys. If the key is not present, I need to add it. So for example,
(alist-set "a" "bb" '(("a" . "b") ("c" . "d"))) =&...
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Is there any Emacs built-in to list the keys of an associton list?
I could not find any function to list the keys of an associton list in Emacs documentation. So I wrote a simple one.
(defun my/keys (alist)
"Return the keys of the given ALIST."
(let ((value ...
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“Dissasociate” auto-mode for specific files (in ESS)
I'd like to keep ess as automatic major mode for R files and everything else, except for Julia, for which I want to use julia-mode alone. However, I cannot find out how to "unbind" the file ...
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Saving persistent undo to a single directory, alist format
It looks like this can be achieved by modifying the variable
undo-tree-history-directory-alist, but I can't figure out how. I tried a number of lines, the last of which is
(setq undo-tree-history-...
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Assoc in a nested alist
I have the following nested alist:
(setq x '(foo . ((bar . ((chocolate . "edible") (gold . "inedible")))
(jar . "glass"))))
How can get entry (chocolate ...
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Read file lines into plist
I've been reading various tutorials on alist/plist access but can't figure this out. Let's say i have this file, test.txt:
oranges 1
apples 2
grapes 3
I want to iterate this file line by line, and ...
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How do I create and update an alist?
This naive attempt did not work:
;; function_key = dict()
(setq function-key '())
;; function_key["evil-next-line"] = 108
(add-to-list function-key '(evil-next-line . 108))
It just exploded with a (...
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Replace element in a list / add in case of absence, with custom test/key functions
add-to-list doesn't refresh item, it only checks for existence of item by equal or custom comparison function:
(add-to-list
'tramp-methods
'("gssh" (tramp-login-program "gcloud ...
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Enable mode association with backup files as well
I want to enable mode association with backup files as well. E.g., if I backup my my-markdown.md file as my-markdown.md.orig or my-markdown.md.lastweek etc, I want them still be associated with the ...
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Association in Elisp not found
I have a simple alist in elisp like this:
(defvar *oneliners*
'((js . "//")
(python . "#")
))
I am a bit surprised that searching for the python key gives me nil. I am calling it from ...
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how to implement a simple lookup table in lisp
I want to write an elisp function, when a country name is given, it returns the short code for the country.
I've been reading about hash tables, but still not sure how to hashify my data set and make ...
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How do you get data by key from a json list?
I loaded some json data into a string and have elisp parsing it using the json-read-from-string function. Now I want to do is access data from the JSON by key. When I print out the data via message, ...
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Why does `assoc` return nil for a plist?
I've got the following issue:
(setq testvar '(link (:type "http" :path "//pygments.org/docs" :format
bracket :raw-link "http://pygments.org/docs" :application nil)))
(setq testvar (nth 1 testvar))
(...
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Argument to ivy-read action when collection is an alist
The documentation of ivy-read states that if the collection supplied is an alist, the selected candidate is passed as a cons cell to the function supplied in the :action argument.
So why does the code ...
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How do I filter an alist to just the properties I care about?
To effectively use a service's API, I'm leveraging json-read to turn the JSON response into an understandable data structure:
(let ((json-object-type 'alist)
(json-array-type 'list)
(...
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Custom sort order based on certain elements of a list
Q: Ā Each sub-list within the main list contains one of five possible categories. How can I customize the sort in the following order:
CUSTOM SORT ORDER:
1. TASKS
2. EVENTS
3. UNDATED
4. ...
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Unexpected behavior when updating alist
Question: The code is below, the contents of the list myList were copied in the debugger.
(let* ((myList '(("Concept Index"
("Š¤Š°Š¹Š»" "/home/alamd/example/funEl/expirement/...
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How not to propagate dired-actual-switches as a directory variable to the sub directories
I want to set dired-actual-switches for the directory /path/to/data, but not for data's subdirectories. So I generated the following .dir-locals.el file in /path/to/data:
;;; Directory Local ...
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elisp - construct a quasi-alist from variable [duplicate]
To construct a quasi-alist, case 1 is using hardcode string; case 2 is using a variable filename to replace the hadcode string. but case 2 doesn't work as expected (should the same as case 1).
#+...
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car on cons gets nil
I define an alist like this:
(setq major-mode-list
'(((emacs-lisp-mode inferior-emacs-lisp-mode) . ("Elisp" "Emacs"))
((haskell-mode) . ("Haskell" "Haskell"))
))
And match current major-...
